Few days ago our DBA team has performed a instance shutdown in one of our
Oracle RAC RDBMS. The Grid software is 12.1.0.2, and RDBMS is 11.2.0.4.
This is 8 (eight) nodes RAC. The instance 4 was shutdown. I wasn't involved
in this task.
Today another DBA decided to startup the instance again. Using the
usual *srvctl
start instance -d DBNAME -i INST_NAME*
What happened? All the following connection, through the scan, were
directed to the instance 4. During the startup phase! So all connections
got *ORA-01033: ORACLE initialization or shutdown in progress*
My question: is there a way to perform some kind of manual node eviction?
Next time in such situations we would manually evict the node, and just
enable it after a fully flawless instance startup.
A srvctl disable instance doesn't perform this task (AFAIK), but just don't
start the specified instance in a database startup.
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Best regards
Luis Santos
